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title: For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all Elephants have to-day. Who acts: you, Crocodile, Elephants. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 62

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For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all Elephants have to-day.

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**Who acts:** you, Crocodile, Elephants · **What happens:** see, understand, pull out, have · **To what, where:** nose, trunk same · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Crocodile, Elephants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:6:62
# text = For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all Elephants have to-day.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	vocative	_	_
4	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	really	really	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | future | you |  |  |  |  | for Best Beloved | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **understand** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pull out** | past · perfect | the Crocodile | nose |  | a trunk same |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | all Elephants |  |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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